Women's+Battle+for+Freedom

** Delivered 1851 Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. **But what's all this here talking about? ** That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! **And ain't I a woman? ** Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! **And ain't I a woman? ** I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! **And ain't I a woman? ** I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! **And ain't I a woman? ** Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. **What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? **//If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? // Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! **__Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? __** From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now **old Sojourner ** ain't got nothing more to say. __ KEY __ PATHOS ** Rhetorical Question ** // Figurative Language (Metaphor) //**__ Repetition/Anaphora __** LOGOS
 * Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): //Ain't I A Woman?//
 * __If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone __**, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
 * __ Allusion __** ** ETHOS **

In The 1872 Presidential Election ** by Susan B. Anthony Stump speech delivered in all 29 postal districts of Monroe Co. (New York State) in 1873 The preamble of the Federal Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity. Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 10.5pt">The only question left to be settled now is: **<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">Are women persons? ** And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes. __ KEY __ PATHOS ** Rhetorical Question ** <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%">LOGOS **//__ Epistrophe __//** <span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%">Parallel Structure <span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">Circular Reasoning
 * Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting
 * Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny. **
 * //__<span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 10.5pt">It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people __//**<span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 10.5pt">, <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 10.5pt">who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.
 * To them ** this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. **<span style="color: rgb(248, 44, 238)">To them ** this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">aristocracy __**; a hateful **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">oligarchy __** of sex ; the most hateful **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">aristocracy __** ever established on the face of the globe<span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">; an **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">oligarchy __** of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">oligarchy __** of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">oligarchy __** of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured ; but this **__<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160)">oligarchy __** of sex, which makes **__father, brothers, husband, sons__**, the oligarchs over the **__mother and sisters, the wife and daughters__**, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.
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 * Induction **** Anaphora

** __ Women’s Battle for Equality Quiz __ 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> What is Sojourner Truth’s real name? (1 Point) 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> What is the main topic in both speeches? (Think about the American voice that is heard.) (1 point) 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> What does the audience member whisper in “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1 Point) 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Identify the audience of each speech. (Requires two answers, one for each speech.) (2 points) 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Summarize the logical appeal made by Truth at the end of her speech, identify the allusion, and explain its effect. (3 Points) 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Give an example of any device in either speeches (not already used in question 5) and explain its effect. (2 points) Points Earned______/ __10__  Possible Points

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